"Success in the arts can be measured only by your ability to say yes to this question: “Did I do the work I needed to do, and did I do it like a motherfucker?"
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https://www.creativenonfiction.org/online-reading/writing-like-a-mofo
On the Creative Nonfiction site today, a really great conversation between Elissa Bassist and Dear Sugar, aka Cheryl Strayed - a follow-up to their correspondence on The Rumpus that yielded coffee mugs and more bearing the Sugar quote “Write Like a Motherfucker”.
